Articles tagged "Multicenter studies"

2019 American Transplant Congress
Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing the Live Donor Champion Program
A. D. Love¹, D. R. Helfer¹, S. Rasmussen¹, M. Johnson¹, J. M. Konel¹, J. R. Wellen², S. M. Nazarian³, E. King¹, D. L. Segev¹, T. Hwee¹, A. M. Cameron¹, M. L. Henderson¹, E. J. Gordon⁴, J. M. Garonzik Wang¹
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ²Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, ³Surgery, Penn Transplant Institute, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Surgery, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The Live Donor Champion (LDC) Program is an intervention designed to increase kidney transplant candidate knowledge about living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) and ability…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Concomitant Complement Factor H Gene Variations Leading to Early Renal Allograft Loss: Multicenter Cases Report from China
J. Wen¹, Z. Jin², N. Gong³, X. Xu⁴
¹Jinling Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, ²Department of Renal Transplantation, The First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College,Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi 'an, China, ³Organ Transplantation, Organ Transplantation Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, ⁴The First Hospital Affiliated to Army Medical University, Beijing, China
*Purpose: The ratio of early renal allograft loss caused by hyperacute rejection, severe surgical complications and sever infection decreased gradually during recent years. Atypical hemolytic…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Delayed Kidney Transplantation in Combined Liver Kidney Transplantation: A Validation Analysis by the UNOS Registry
L. Chau, M. Safwan, M. Rizzari, K. Collins, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud, D. Moonka, S. Nagai
Transplant Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Delayed kidney transplantation for patients undergoing combined liver-kidney transplant (CLKT) have been suggested to improve patient survival and kidney function compared to simultaneous liver-kidney…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Timeline for Resuming Physical Activities after Renal Transplantation: A Mid West Pediatric Nephrology Consortium Study
P. Baddi¹, H. Patel², H. Janjua³, D. Y. Kim⁴, A. Jain⁵
¹Beaumont Children's Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, ²Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, ³Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, ⁴Children's Hospital of Michigan and Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, ⁵Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: To assess the practice patterns of the timeline for safely resuming various physical activities after pediatric kidney transplant.*Methods: An anonymous web-based survey was distributed…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Prospective Multi-Regional Study of Down-Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma to within Milan Criteria before Liver Transplantation
N. Mehta¹, J. Guy², C. Frenette³, P. Tabrizian⁴, M. Hoteit⁵, R. Dhanasekaran⁶, J. Dodge¹, M. L. Holzner⁴, L. Frankul³, S. Florman⁴, N. Parikh⁷, F. Yao¹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²CPMC, San Francisco, CA, ³Scripps Hospital, La Jolla, CA, ⁴Mt Sinai, New York, NY, ⁵U. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, ⁷U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Recent studies from United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) Region 5 reported excellent outcomes after liver transplantation (LT) after successful down-staging in HCC patients…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Gender Disparities In Cirrhosis: New Findings In A Large Pretransplant Population
N. Mazumder, K. Atiemo, A. Daud, L. Zhao, M. Abecassis, J. Levitsky, D. P. Ladner
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: There is concern that female patients may suffer worse outcomes than their male counterparts while awaiting liver transplant. Studies on this topic often use…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Fifteen Year Outcomes in the Astellas Double Blind Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) Comparing Early Corticosteroid Withdrawal (CSWD) and Long-Term Corticosteroid Therapy Continuation (CCS) in Kidney Transplantation
E. Woodle¹, S. Clark², D. Stewart³, M. First⁴, R. Alloway⁵, J. Gill⁶, .. Split Rock Group⁷
¹Transplant Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, ²Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³UNOS, Richmond, VA, ⁴Transplant Genomics Inc. and Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, ⁵University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, ⁶University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁷Yale University, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: To evaluate long-term outcomes among participants in the original multi-center RCT initiated in 1999 (Woodle et al, Annals of Surgery, 2008), and to demonstrate…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Evaluating Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Older Kidney Transplant Recipients
L. DeVietro¹, B. Richardson², E. A. Cohen³, A. H. Toledo⁴, E. Marin⁵, K. R. Szempruch⁶
¹University of St. Joseph School of Pharmacy, Hartford, CT, ²University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Pharmacy, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, ⁴Surgery-Transplant, University of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁵Nephrology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, ⁶Pharmacy, University of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC
*Purpose: While the Beers criteria (BC) and STOPP criteria (SC) have been validated in several patient populations to reduce medication use leading to adverse drug…
2019 American Transplant Congress
External Validation of the DCD-N Score and a Linear Prediction Model to Identify Potential Candidates for Donation after Circulatory Death: A Nation-Wide Cohort Study
M. F. Nijhoff¹, R. A. Pol¹, M. Volbeda¹, A. M. Kotsopoulos², J. P. Sonneveld³, J. van Dongen⁴, W. F. Abdo⁵, V. Silderhuis⁶, C. Moers¹
¹Surgery – Organ Donation and Transplantation, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²Department of Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Elisabeth Twee Steden Hospital, Tilburg, Netherlands, ³Department of ICU, Isala, Zwolle, Netherlands, ⁴Department of ICU, Catharina hospital, Eindhoven, Netherlands, ⁵Department of ICU, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands, ⁶Department of ICU, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
*Purpose: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) is most often a controlled procedure after planned withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (WLST) at an intensive care unit. In…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcomes in Recipients with Physical Impairments
A. G. Thomas¹, J. Ruck², N. Chu², D. Agoons², A. Shaffer², C. Haugen², H. Ying², B. Swenor², S. Norman³, J. Garonzik-Wang², D. Segev², M. McAdams-DeMarco²
¹Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, ³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Disability in general has been associated with poor outcomes in KT recipients. However, disability can be derived from various components, specifically visual, hearing, physical,…

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